Beck, Jakob Sigismund, 1761-1840

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Personal name heading	Beck, Jakob Sigismund, 1761-1840 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Beck, Jacob Sigismund, 1761-1840
Birth date	1761-08-06
Death date	1840-08-29
Place of birth	Malbork (Poland)
Place of death	Rostock (Germany)
Affiliation	Universität Halle Universität Rostock
Profession or occupation	College teachers Philosophers
Found in	Meyer, T.L. Das Problem eines höchsten Grundsatzes der Philosophie bei Jacob Sigismund Beck, 1991. LC data base, 07-29-91 (hdg.: Beck, Jakob Sigismund, 1761-1840) The principles of critical philosophy, 1797: title page (James Sigismund Beck) Wikipedia, 28 November 2017 (Jakob Sigismund Beck; Jakob Sigismund Beck (originally Jacob Sigismund Beck; 6 August 1761--29 August 1840), German philosopher; born in the village of Liessau in the rural district of Marienburg (Malbork) in Royal Prussia; he studied (after 1783) mathematics and philosophy at the University of Königsberg, where Christian Jakob Kraus, Johann Schultz, and Immanuel Kant were his teachers; after his studies he first accepted a post as a teacher at a grammar school in Halle; he then worked as a lecturer of philosophy at the University of Halle (1791-1799), before be became a professor of philosophy at the University of Rostock; he devoted himself to criticism and explanation of the doctrine of Kant, and in 1793 published the Erläuternder Auszug aus den kritischen Schriften des Herrn Prof. Kant, auf Anrathen desselben (Riga, 1793-1796), which has been widely used as a compendium of Kantian doctrine; he died in Rostock)
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